Posts by Potemkine! 3270 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2017
Names, dates of birth, social security numbers, France Travail identifiers, email addresses, postal addresses, and phone numbers were compromised, according to the department.
Social security numbers are not valuable in France. They can even be retrieved from public information and it's illegal to use it as an identifier. Addresses are another matter, it will feed spammers databases.
In France, in many shops there are boxes at the entrance when you can freely dump your e-waste for recycling.... hoping it isn't sent to Africa or Asia where some children slaves have to burn and smell the plastic to know if it can be recycled.
Agreed, this won't be good enough. We also need the diagrams, the part reference list and the repair manuals available.
However, what is important is that there are new rights for consumers, and it's the second iteration of that bill. For each iteration there's a progress. We can hope there will be a third iteration going even further.
Which is horrible in its own way, because it suggests investors assume big tech companies are just going to be attacked and have their secrets spilled and don't think that damages their prospects.
In a way, it's rather a good news, because it will encourage companies to disclose they were attacked rather than hiding the fact. In return, it will encourage other companies to invest to deal with the threat.
The media has hyped up the pressure on the Post Office and Fujitsu since the broadcast of an ITV television drama about the injustice. Prime minister Rishi Sunak has since promised to introduce legislation to accelerate exoneration of the victims
So politicians react only when the media bring the story to light again - not limited to UK. They don't give a damn about people, about fairness, about justice. The only thing that does matter for these selfish bastards is their public image.
I started my career as software developer for a company designing multimedia servers, the first generation of totally-software based IPBX, but also ACD, vocal servers, and CASE tools so the customers could build their own addons... we had hundred of customers worldwide, in Europe, the US, in Japan, with thousands of servers. We had regularly new versions released. And for all this, we were 4 developers and 6 people for the support. And this was working fine.
SMB can be much, much more efficient than big companies. The differences are SMB have to pay their fare share of taxes and don't have the good connections in ministries.
The rise of the far-right worldwide is worrying. In some countries like the US (but not only), it became mainstream, and it becomes normal to propagate hatred... For some it's even normal to storm a parliament and try to change a popular vote by force... and the populace of bigots, racists, xenophobic and other scums applauses the one responsible for that, and is really to elect him as "The Guide", even if he's a criminal.
History lessons are forgotten. Not surprising seen how education is despised, underfunded and instrumentalised. Sad days are coming.
Airbus
ArianeEspace
ESA
Eureka program
Horizon program
The Euro
to name a few. I agree that too many times bureaucracy drowns interesting projects, but condemning everything is a little bit extremist. There are many progress to be made, and good things can emerge.
It's obvious that carbon removal from the atmosphere is the way to go because unless a nuclear war between China and India, CO2 production will rise spectacularly in the coming decades. We can do whatever in Europe, even stop to exist, it won't have an impact on the climate. So carbon storage is not an option if the goal is to reduce CO2 proportion into the atmosphere, it's the only way to go (unless a nuclear war, see above).
There are plenty of options, plenty of possibilities. Don't focus on one but use all of them altogether.
I agree with this, but the time line may be short, because of the lack of investment to build the H2 infrastructure.
With solar panels and rain, one could possibly makes his own H2 which could be used for cars, trucks, heating, cooking... No need of batteries whose lifetime is unknown, no need to extract lithium, and a total autonomy regarding energy.
In other words, you're doing it wrong yet still blaming MS for you not using their latest time saving shortcut usage paradigms.
That's exactly the problem: MS is forcing to users' throat the way it considers better for them, whatever they may think or believe. Not listening to users is MS habit, but it's a bad one. Respecting customers should be business 101.
Talking about the F-35, there was an interesting report from the Norwegian National Audit Office
he F-35 Fighter Jet: The Ministry of Defense Has Done Too Little, Too Late.
The SAAB Gripen was eliminated from the competition vs the F-35 because it was deemed too expensive. Now it appears that the Norwegian Defense ministry slightly underestimated the costs of maintenance of the F-35 fleet: it's now NOK 349 billion instead of NOK 145 billion. Dassault and Eurofighter withdrew from the competition because they doubted the ministry would consider something else than the F-35. It seems now they were right, the competition was biased from the beginning.
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